The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-27

| y BtrOnB Impulse 10 nelp MIN 10 y cnence'
I'm not sure but should be doing myself q
| good turn too. I feel the need Of some fresh
brains and energy in my business" Mr..
Sidney Collamore was himself In the fore
most ranks Of the legal profession.
"My dear Sidney you wouldn't take him
into your own object" exclaimed Mrs.
Armington. "And yet a. an experiment II
! would be interesting One would like to
see the effect Of civilization upon him, and
vet one couldn't quite, under any circum-
stances, receive him socially"
"You would see all the best girls in B.
setting their caps for him in y few years.
Nowadays, when young man gets to the
top OF the heap, he is not asked to display
the bones of his ancestors"
10, Sidney you know we have not those
terrible levelling notions in B.. A young
man is expected to have them"
''The bonesl Well this young man has
the backbone Of some of them"
Mr.. Collamore was very much pleased
with this small joke, and gratified that,
although his sister ignored it, his niece
responded to it by smiling brightly. Mean
while the clerk was pursuing his vocation
| OF general enlightener, and only vague
thrilling Of his pulses remained Of hi,
| encounter with Miss Seraph's deep blue
knew well that such thrillings were not in
his line If he had been good Catholic he
| would have crossed himself and cried
Avaunt! As It was, he trusted his com.
nonsense to nip this little weakness in the
bud; it had never had just such task inn
posed upon it before, but in other emergen-
| ces it had never failed him, and he thought
| it would not now.
He must make his occupation an excuse
| for declining to accompany Mrs Arminoton
| on excursions In the character of a fo,nta;n
of information. He would hold himself
aloof as far as possible from these people.
| who were so far removed from his snbere
1t was probable that even she of the deem
| blue ewes regarded him merely with curios.
ity as a sstype.n How those words which
| he had overheard rankled-vhen once he
| would have laughed them to scorn-because
she heard them. What n;tiab,a ;d;ot;c
weakness for a man who professed TO have
himself well in hand, He oround h;s teeth
and opened bis ears with q great efrort ~
the complaints of ooutv oId gentIeman
who wanted electric bells and an elevator
put in, q chamber-maid arrested and a he'll.
boy han ped. all before dinner.time
And then the first time that Mrs AWNING.
| ton asked him tn on on an excnr.ion he
went. Cap,p Hackett. the landlord. tbought
it "wouldn't do to be unaccommodatin' to
| the swellest folks they'd ever had.n And
his clerk assented to this with an alacrity
that surprised him, "seein,n las he ex.
plained) tSarmwell was a leetle ant tn he
contr'y." His presence soon became almost
| indispensable to the success of Mrs, Arm
ington's expeditions. Without his inex.
haustible fund of information the paper
which she was preparing for the Antiouar-
ian Society would be sadly incomplete: for
the other natives were as ignorant and
oblivious of their local history and tradi.
tions as the clans along their shores. She
had SO far forgotten her difficulties CON
cerning his social position as to reproye her
niece for cherishing unworthy preiudices
because she never Joined in her enthusiastic
expressions Of admiration for the young
man. MRS. Armington herself was almost
as dense as the clans concerning some
things that were going on beneath her very
nose.)
Mr. Collamore had not been able to resist
his benevolent and business-like intention
Of giving the young man a chance in the
shape Of position in his own Office on most
advantageous terms. To his surprise, Mr..
Samuel Pulsifer showed some hesitancy in
accepting, and asked for time to consider,
although evidently much gratified.
81 can't quite make him out" said the
lawyer; "but he has reason; knows what
he's about; and I'm impressed anew with
his remarkable ability.'
The Collamores ma de an excursion to
Eagle Cliff the day after Mr.. Collamore re-
ceived this new impression. Acquaintances
of theirs from B had arrived, and were
OF the party. Although the buck board was
somewhat crowded, Mrs. Armington in
sisted that Pulsifer should go, as there
were some glacial marks on the rocks of
the cliff which they might miss if he were
not there to point them out. One portly
dame complained Of being crowded, and
conveyed unmistakable hints that she con-
sidered the presence of the hotel clerk
superf1uity; and the result was that Pulsifer
quietly announced his determination to
walk back, distance Of six miles. Mrs.
Arlington was indignant at the rudcness
offered to her protege; that he shou Id be
sensitive had ceased to be ridiculous to her;
and she delared that there was plenty of
room; but he resisted all her entreaties.
There was flush OF irritation upon his
brow, and he tossed his hair back with
gesture which Mrs. Armington had dis
covered meant wounded pride.
But when she looked back at him standing
alone upon the Cliff, as the party drove
away his face was radiant. 'What strange
ly varying moods he has he is certainly a
genius" she said to her niece. And The
niece preserved shamefaced silence; as
well she might, for the changed mood of
sgenius" was owing to the fact that she had
made distracting little nsoue at the portly
lady's back, with sympathizing look at
Samuel Pulsifer, and thereupon the two had